Wellness Home Principles and Planning Dimensions of Wellness   Programs & Resources Physical: Fitness Physical: Nutrition Physical: Health & Medical Intellectual Social & Community Occupational Spiritual Emotional   Click here to learn more about Making Strides Employee Wellness Program   Health Benefits Contacts Provide Site Feedback Contact Personnel Resources   "The difference between the    impossible and the possible    lies in the person's determination." Tommy LaSorda				Wellness Physical Dimension of Wellness: Health Health: The University both trains and offers health education services. CPR/AED Certification and re-certification training is offered through the Office of Personnel Resources to University employees. Call ext. 6031 for more information. The campus Health Service has a large collection of brochures/pamphlets and videos on a variety of wellness education topics. Employees can request information for personal use, classes, or programs. Call extension 6046. Incentive Program: Beyond the personal benefits associated with improved health, you are encouraged to participate in the (click) Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois employee incentive program. Self-Assess Health Status: Complete a health risk assessment, create a personal health profile, and receive targeted wellness information through Blue Cross/Blue Shield by login onto the (click) Personal Health Manager for members. Determine your risk for each of the following diseases: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and osteoporosis. Then read related educational materials. URL: http://www.diseaseriskindex.harvard.edu/update/. Assess your risk for a heart attack:http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3003499. Find out if you are at risk for diabetes: http://www.diabetes.org/risk-test.jsp. Estimate your 10 year risk of having a heart attack: http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/atpiii/calculator.asp?usertype=pub Assess your risk of a stroke, and compare it against those your age and sex: http://strokecenter.stanford.edu/consent.html. Check your risk for osteoporosis: http://www.nof.org/prevention/Risk_Factor_Questionnaire.pdf. Physical and Clinical Measurements: In order to accurately complete some of these self-assessments of risk, you must know your blood pressure, cholesterol (lipid) levels (i.e., total, LDL, HDL and triglycerides), and blood glucose/sugar levels, as well as height, weight, and waist circumference. To encourage testing to improve the health of employees, the Nutrition and Exercise Physiology programs are offering the following programs to Benedictine University employees: Free height, weight, BMI determination, and waist to hip ratio calculation. Employees can contact the Healthy Table nutrition education center at ext. 6518. Reduced cost blood lipid tests and body composition testing taken on campus. Contact Craig Broeder (Director, Exercise Physiology Program) at ext. 6563 for a date and time. Making Strides employee wellness program, summer 2009. Contact Dr. Catherine Arnold (Chair, Nutrition Department) at ext. 6534. Healthier Body Challenge. Contact Dr. Craig Broeder (Director, Exercise Physiology Program) at ext. 6563 Medical Resources: Medline Plus: http://medlineplus.gov WebMD: http://www.webmd.com Health Finder: http://www.healthfinder.gov/ National Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine (NIH): http://nccam.nih.gov/ A few Health Associations: American Cancer Society (prevention): http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/PED_0.asp American Diabetes Association (nutrition, exercise, weight loss): http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp American Dietetic Association (Food and Nutrition Information for consumers), which includes a link to the exchange lists and nutrient values for specific food items: http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition.html American Heart Association: http://www.americanheart.org National Osteoporosis Foundation: http://www.nof.org Shape Up America!: http://www.shapeup.org/